Octane Necromancer

Thanks man. I appreciate you givin it a listen and taking the time to drop me a comment bro.

Hey Aaron, thanks for the recommendations on Pelican and Russian Circles. I checked them out and have been giving them a lot of my free time the last week or so. You were spot on, they are both great. Pelican is a more Heavy, power groove with a bit of Stoner flavoring type band while Russian Circles music tends to be more melodic and progressive. I'll bet they were good live.

I picked up a few tasty riffs that I might have to work into a track sometime!

Aaron, good to hear from you man. Yeah this track was a bit longer in its original form before settling into this shortened version. It was pretty close to what you suggested only I believe it was around the 2:00 mark just prior to the outtro here. I popped in this clean bridge transition thing, close to what you suggest, that went a few bars and ended up back to about 1:26 here through to the outtro. It sounded good but I felt it deflated the energy quite a bit and in the end I decided to nix it. If I still have that version I may put it in here and see which you like better. Oh and as a mater of fact I have heard of Pelican, had a few tunes of theirs on my playlist for quite a while, but its been a good 5 years or more since I have give them a listen. They had a song I really was hung on, Creeper or Creeping, something like that. I'm going to check it out after this cause I'm wanting to hear it now. I will also check out Russian Circles.

As always its cool to have you drop in and give me some of your thoughts Aaron, I really appreciate it.

Hmmm, Dark New Day, Black Water Rising, Drowning Pool, Sw1tch, Submersed, Eye Empire, Stuck Mojo, Pro-Pain, Agnostic Front, Crumbsuckers, Ugly Kid Joe, Life of Agony etc., Any or none of the above. (Well, so much for my low profile). Ha ha! Brother don't dig too deep, lets just have our fun. You know whats just as crazy though, if someone decides to read both of our profiles they might be inclined to believe we are one and the same person. It's strange but there are some pretty crazy similarities ! Lol, I dig your comments man, muchas gracias. Stay tuned bro.

Thanks Silve, Yeah your right, I will leave the wasteland to the Road Warrior.

I love and so adamantly appreciate the righteous comment Dave. Always cool to get some feedback from you man. Sorry so late on the reply, been really busy with some side projects. Again, big thanks!

Nice, nice. Much thanks!

Ha ha, I hope you thrived on it bro. Thanks for the comment!

Ha ha, yeah maybe a bit much on the string bends but its so much fun and sounds cool. With the Floyd Rose and locking nut the tuning stays surprisingly stable. I use D'Addario NYXL's and have never really had any issues. They can really take a beating. Thanks for the crument bro !

Opeth ! Wow man, I've definitely been a fan for years and I would be lying if I didn't agree to be more than slightly inspired by their music. Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson are tremendous players. Their music does focus on a lot of clean guitar melodies that are just awe inspiring. I do use a few tri-tone chords within the rhythms here too which they are very big on. Thanks TA.

Hey Metabolic, the pinch harmonics of course are achieved from pick technique of plucking the string with the tip of the pick and at the same time slightly touching the string to mute. It helps to use light gauge strings. I like to incorporate micro tonal bends as well to add some pitch flavoring to the note. Here I'm also adding reverb and delay for additional accent. Regarding the tone, as a guitar player you already know so many things come into play that effects tone. Guitar type, strings, pickups, effects chain, Amps, Cabs, eq, etc. all have an effect on tone. For this section of the track I wanted deep rich tone, so I switched to the baritone set up guitar with Humbucker style pickups. One thing I've learned when dialing in my sound for Metal tone is to be slightly conservative when it comes to gain. I see (and hear) so many players tend to go way overboard on gain. I try to use as little as possible, not too little because I do want the amp to saturate, so my sweet spot or where I target is right where its starts to crunch or sustain on palm mutes. Very rarely will I go much past noon setting for gain. A good rule of thumb is to start with everything at noon and then tweak to desire. As far as eq I always raise the mids a bit and ease off the high end. I also used an overdrive in the chain before the amp with a noise gate to contain all the extraneous noise. So what I end up with is ample gain but a tight rich sound that's full not too clean. I don't like my staccato riffs tinny sounding or too bright. Thanks for commenting bro !

Hey thanks for checking me out evil, its always cool to see new faces in my comments, especially rockers. I will make a point to scope out more of your tracks as well. Yeah the mixture of clean melodic and high gain heavy down tuned guitar is one of the interesting aspects of alternative or progressive metal that I really like.

I remember seeing the movie at the theatre as well and it was like so freaking bizarre! I had never seen anything like that and I have always been into car culture. I appreciate it Wayne.

Thanks man, I'm always happy to lend some badassery for a good cause!

Ha ha Thanks Robbie, I dig that Xcellant commentation. Sorry for the delayed response but I have been real busy with the holidays this year. Yeah a bit of a mix here of clean and dirty guitars in a progressive alternative metal style. Multiple double tracked guitar as well as two separately layered standard and sub bass tracks to give it some extra bottom. Begs to be played LOUD !

Awesome. This type of response is what my presenting this type of music is all about. There are plenty great bands doing this type of stuff though, most seem to now be based in U.K.. Thanks Evan.

Very cool of you to check it out not being a Rock fan and thanks for the kind words.

Yes, looks like there are a few Mad Max fans in here. I guess it was just coincidental but after I started working on this just before Christmas I saw the Road Warrior on television. Then a few days later a cable tv series I like called Jay Lenos Garage had Jay featuring a Mad Max inspired car club with all sorts of vehicles and wacked out members that were straight out of the Mad Max movies. But the icing on the cake came the day before I posted the track. I pulled into a gas station here in Dallas and saw a crowd of people gathered around a car that turned out to be a replica of Max's Ford Falcon V8 Interceptor. The owners name is Jake Sposato and he lives just up the road here in Lewisville. He is a bit of a movie car fanatic and has a few other cars as well. He had been there a while I guess and left shortly after I got there. But the car looked straight out of the movie! It was crazy. So when I sat down to upload the track I got the idea to culminate all this and use the Mad Max description. Glad you like it jamid and thanks for your comments.

The Road Warrior was a very cool movie indeed! I hope 2018 is a good year for us all. I sense you were in a down sort of mood here danke, but you are not boring and predictable. I look forward to what you have in store for us in the new year! Best wishes to you my friend.